Seedance 2.0 Might Be Gen AI Video’s Next Big Hope, but It’s Still Slop

Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 - TikTok developer ByteDance's newest video generation model - it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we've seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips' star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) looked a lot like the real thing as it fought Brad Pitt, humanoid robots, and zombies. And the characters moved with a co…

Pitt vs. Cruise: The AI clip that shook Hollywood

Forget the Valentine-friendly release of the new Wuthering Heights, said Nick Schager in the Daily Beast. In Hollywood, “the biggest film of the weekend, and maybe the year, is a 15-second short starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.” The clip seems to show the two stars in a rooftop fistfight, but it was generated by Seedance 2.0, a new AI tool, and it’s “so lifelike that it’s virtually indistinguishable from reality.” The concerned Irish filmmaker…

What’s Seedance 2.0, the Chinese AI tool that’s rattling Hollywood?

A Chinese tech giant has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of generating cinema-quality videos, complete with dialogue and sound effects, from just a few lines of text, sending ripples through Hollywood. The AI, Seedance 2.0, developed by TikTok owner ByteDance, can create videos that look strikingly like professional studio productions.   This was a 2 line prompt in seedance 2. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right may…